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Category: Institutions

Raison d’être

Yesterday I discussed and advocated for visioning exercises, particularly if your institution is about to undergo some radical changes. It is a lot easier to navigate a storm if you know where you’re going in the first place. Everyone in a university needs to be able to answer the question Why does this institution exist? What’s your raison d’être? To some of you, I expect that this question sounds stupid. Obviously, the answer is some kind of mix of “teaching,

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October 30, 2024 3 Comments

Strategy in an Emergency

I’ve had a couple of people say to me recently that in light of the current carnage, I must be having trouble getting business. “No time for strategy right now, huh?” Wrong. You see, “strategic planning” isn’t one single thing: it encompasses a huge variety of activities. And some of them, no, you probably don’t want to mess around with during an emergency. But others, you really, really do, and failure to do so is likely to make the carnage

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October 29, 2024 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (October 18, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be working on refreshing our online repositoryof policies and guidelines from Canadian and global post-secondary institutions. If your institutions’ resources are not yet on our website, or if the ones that are there are no longer the most updated versions, please send the links our way so that we can continue building this helpful collection of resources!  In the meantime, let me highlight a few of the most relevant

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October 18, 2024 No Comments

Carnage

Y’all may recall January 22nd, when federal Immigration Marc Miller slapped a national cap on international student visas which implied a 35% cut (but larger in Ontario) and effectively killed off the PPP industry for (mainly Ontario) community colleges. You may also recall September 16th, when Miller returned to say “surprise! Now the cap includes graduate students” and also made changes to the post-graduate work-visa program which are likely to obliterate colleges’ ability to recruit students (the guesses I am hearing from the

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October 16, 2024 20 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (October 4, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  About a month ago, the U15 released its guidance on the use of AI in academic teaching and learning (finally, dare I say): Navigating AI in Teaching and Learning: Values, Principles and Leading Practices. While nothing in there is truly groundbreaking – which might make one (me, for starters) wonder why it took them so long, two elements caught my eye.  1) The U15 emphasizes the importance of Building trust, saying “As we learn and gain

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October 4, 2024 No Comments

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